FC7 T4 impressions

Fulko Hew fhew3 at cogeco.ca
Sat Apr 28 22:36:56 UTC 2007


I just installed T4 on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (for testing)
and here are my observations:

1/ Kweather is missing.

2/ Whats the difference between Klaptop and KPowerSave?
   I seem to get both, and as usual with competing software,
   they each have their features, and each are missing
   useful features from the other.  :-(

3/ I'd like to test Intel 3945 wireless support, but I have
   no idea what the procedure would be to install whatever
   needs installing.  Do I use the same process I used in
   FC6? or is it different because of new software in FC7?

4/ ACPI w.r.t. closing the lid is now built in, and auto-invokes
   Xscreenlock. (FC6 would have kept the display black unless
   you manually added additional software.) Yipee!

5/ W915 resolution is no longer needed.  Wide screen works
   properly, out-of-the-box.  Yipee!

6/ When I plug in my USB disk drive that has two Ext3 filesystems
   on it, I get two icons on the desktop, but when I click on
   either icon, and select 'safely remove'... both filesystems
   are unmounted. (KDE)  Note: You can still use the umount
   command to unmount each filesystem individually, Its just
   the icon that behaves inconsistently?  ;-|

   Having written this, maybe its a feature that...
   If you unmount one partition of a USB device,
   all partitions on the device are unmounted,
   so you can remove the device without
   forgetting about the 'other' partitions.






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